Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 290Y

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DS ID:

DS29759

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 290Y

Title:

Kitāb al-Ḥabāʾik fī akhbār al-malāʾik / / كتاب الحبائك في اخبار الملائك /

Author:

Suyūṭī, 1445-1505 / سيوطي

Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti WIKIDATA

Date:

1654

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: i, 106, i leaves: paper ; 213 x 154 (160 x 110) mm. bound to 210 x 155 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Physical description: 21 to 24 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with occasional use of red ; yāʾ for alif maqṣūrah. Thick European paper with watermark (Tre lune) ; glossy. Title on tail of text block. Short text on Iblīs on fol. 1a. The colophon is followed by a short saying attributed to Ibn Masʻūd (fol. 105a).
Collation: Paper, fol. i, 106, i ; i (free endpaper) 1-1010 116 i (free endpaper) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf ; the second quire is numbered using Arabic numerals (fol. 11a).
Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Ḥadīth 10". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥ 484".
Origin: According to colophon, copied by ʻAlī ibn al-marḥūm shaykh al-Islām al-shaykh ʻĀmir al-SHBRLWī(?) al-Shāfiʻī for himself, and completed in the middle of Ṣafar 1064 [April 1654] (fol. 105a).
Copyist: ʻAlī ibn ʻĀmir al-SHBRLWī(?) al-Shāfiʻī.
Ownership statement in the name of Aḥmad al-Fayyūmī al-Mālikī on fol. 1a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Arabic

Seventeenth century

New Jersey--Princeton

Angels--Islam

Early works

Devil--Islam

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9954427233506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/2c2d7b27-cd5e-4a12-8ccd-3e286ddda63c/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University